Grove of American Chestnuts Found!
Looks like a whole grove of American Chestnut trees have been found! These are notable not only because there's a number of them and they appear to have escaped the blight, but also because they are at the extreme southern limit of the species and near FDR's "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Rare American Chestnut Trees Discovered (ABC News)
(For those who don't know and want more info on why this is signficant, try here).
Update: The original article states that there are six trees in the stand, but today on NPR the discoverer mentioned that a cursory walk around the area turned up another one nearby, so it's possible that there may be a considerable pocket of them. He hypothesized that the dry microclimate in the area may make it difficult for the blight pathogen to survive.
Labels: American Chestnut, castanea, chestnut, news, nuts
posted by Evil Fruit Lord @ 11:52 PM
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3 Comments:
i remember walking through someone's grandmother's house in georgia and marvelling at the beautiful flooring and paneling throughout, just the most gorgeous shade of honey amber, knotted wide planks. turns out it was american chestnut. (btw, i'm not suggesting my delight in the rare tree find is because i plan on chopping them down for lumber, no not at all)
The American Chestnut is just an awesome species. Sometimes when I mention my sadness at its fate, people try to point out that you can still get Chinese chestnuts, but the nuts are really only part of it...they were enormous trees, with beautiful lumber. The Chinese Chestnuts, though attractive enough I suppose in their own right, are small, spreading trees, not the towering 100' foot giants the American ones were (Of course, now American ones tend to be little nasty distorted things, since most of them are stumps covered with sprouts in the process of being killed by blght.)
Its good that they have been found. American chestnut is a amazing species.
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